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Rogen talks Ghostbusters 3

I’ve even more respect for Seth Rogen (any man that lets my kid sit on his lap through an interview does your love, right?).

You’ll have heard the rumours that Rogen’s up for the role of a Ghostbuster in the recently announced ”Ghostbusters 3”, right?

Rogen has too. But he’s yet to receive an offer – and even if he does he doesn’t know whether he’ll take it.

Smart man.

The amiable comic actor clearly has, as most of us do, a love for the original ”Ghostbusters” film – the sequel has its moments too, if only because it did feature the original cast – and says he’d personally hate to see a third film that featured a whole bunch of new actors.

And though the original cast – Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray et al – are expected to return for the new film, the plan is for them to team up with a bunch of younger ‘slimeballs’.

“It’s hard to imagine that would be good, isn’t it?” Rogen tells Collider. “I mean just as a movie fan I am the first guy to be skeptical of that. It sounds like a terrible idea when you first hear it. At first hearing it sounds like the worst idea ever. I mean, that would have to be one motherfucking good script.”

Rogen says he’ll have no problem turning something like that down – unless it absolutely blows him away.

“There is a point where it’s so bad it’s really easy to say no.”

Meantime, Rogen’s also been talking up his forthcoming stint as The Green Hornet to CHUD.

It’s been said that director Stephen Chow’s upcoming film adaptation of the old Bruce Lee series will be a rather serious film – at least in comparison to some of Rogen’s other work.

Yet Rogen isn’t so sure it’ll be gravely serious a film as has been previously reported.

“We feel no obligation to live up to anything I’ve said to any of you people in the past,” Rogen told the site at the ‘’Zack & Miri’’ press day. “When we’re writing I can’t go, ‘Fuck, I told CHUD we weren’t going to do that! Let’s do it anyway!’

“Me and Evan [Goldberg] talk a lot of shit. We have one rule when writing, and that’s don’t get attached to anything. One day we want to make a serious film and then Stephen Chow comes in with a good idea and we’re like, ‘Well it’s funny.’ Should we not do it because we originally wanted to do a serious film? We come from, nah fuck it, we’ll just take the idea that seems good. So it’s definitely less serious than a serious film, that’s for sure. We want the action… I say now that we want the action to play serious but Stephen could come in tomorrow and say ‘You know what? I want to throw you 400 feet in the air!’ and I’d go, ‘OK, that sounds cool.’

“We’re very open now. Right now is when we’re in the process of deciding what this movie is going to be on a practical level. The story is the same; we’ve always known the story we wanted to tell, so it’s easy within that to discuss the various sensibilities and reality levels and humor levels and stuff like that. To us, we hoped the director would come in and give us lots of ideas and directions to work with, and that’s what he’s doing.”

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